"So hows married life treating you?"

I know I keep not updating this, I update once a year, blah blah blah.  I make promises to do it, I don't, blah blah, repetitive yearly update information insert here...  So here we go.

Since my last post, I changed my wedding date, still got married in 2014, but about 3 months later, which also gave me 3 months more to plan things, which did help.  Final date was in August and my now hubby and I left immediately for our honeymoon, a week in Jamaica.  I highly suggest Sandals and that you shop for trips with them around Black Friday or other major sale weekends, because I got what I consider to be a pretty good deal.

I've now been married about 4 months, the hubs and me haven't killed each other yet, but there is a weekly discussion about his comforter hogging, and my mattress hogging.  Basically I like to sleep in the middle of the bed, and he likes to curl up like he's a caterpillar in a cocoon.  We are coping.  No war yet!

I consistently have people asking me, "How's married life treating you?" or "how's it like now that you're living together!?" and I had friends and others who are married tell me its SO different, or you don't realize how much you love them til you're married, or how annoying they are until you are married.  Frankly, I have experienced none of this.  I imagine this is what everyone calls the "honeymoon stage" and that we haven't finished it and once day I'll become thoroughly annoyed with things he does more than leaving dirty tissues places other than the trash can, or stealing the comforter, and he'll be more annoyed with things besides my hair in the drain or me trying to sleep in the middle of our bed...  Basically, everything in our relationship is the same except we're pretty much together all the time... I go to bed, he's there, I wake up, he's there.  I do not see this as a problem... he does his thing, I do mine, lifes good!

One thing I have figured out while being married, that has changed drastically is I can cook... like actually cook.  I cook incredibly simple things, but I do it.  I accidentally made alfredo sauce one day, crazy.  I enjoy making sauces.  They're fun.  I've basically been taking recipes I'm finding online or people gave me and going, "How can I make this incredibly more simple and with only the stuff in my kitchen...  Since we just moved in like 3 months ago, theres almost nothing in our pantry, I'm slowly building my spice cabinet.

I've decided I'm going to keep doing the whole, "this looks good, but that takes FOREVER and I don't want to use all these ingredients.  How can I make this simple..."  I also have to do this because I don't have much time to make dinner after I get home from work.

I've also started couponing.  Not enough that I'll get free groceries and have this giant hoard of detergent and toilet paper, but enough to save us a little money on groceries, and keep to our new 2015 budget.  Hopefully we can put whatever excess money we save on groceries and other money saving stuff can help us buy a house sooner.

Here we go...

Happy Life!  Keep Creating!

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